People are very mobile. and moving this number of people around is relatively easy today. In fact. this bill acknowledges this very point by requiring them to go home to apply for citizenship. I have also heard some say the opposition to amnesty is being driven by an antiimmigrant bias. This is also untrue. Americans are extremely proimmigrant. but they are upset that their Government has lied to them for 20 years on this issue. and they have lost confidence in our ability to control our borders. Let me be clear: I am proimmigrant. I believe in legal immigration. I want people to come here. respect our laws. embrace our values. and become American citizens. but we must reject amnesty if we ever expect that to happen. That is why eliminating the amnesty provision in this bill is the most compassionate and proimmigrant thing we can do. By striking the Z visas from this bill. this amendment will allow us to uphold the rule of law. create fairness for millions of people who want to come here legally. and allow us to focus on securing our borders. I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum.
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